Clarion 1941-12-18 Vol 21 No 07

THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XXI No. 7
BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.)
Dec. 18, 1941
Sem Students
Go to Chicago
by Ray Applequist
Twenty one seminary students
returned Monday from a four day
seminar held at the Northern
Theological Seminary in Chicago.
Ministerial students from several
schools met for this interesting
session held every other year for
the purpose of acquainting our fu-ture
pastors and missionaries with
the work and organization of the
Northern Baptist Convention.
The whole four days proved
themselves profitable. Even our
critically minded Bethelites agreed
to this as they have repeatedly
commented on the helpful talks
and messages given by the out-standing
speakers.
Foremost among these messages
was a series of five messages given
by Dr. Dana of Kansas City who
offered "The five most important
words in the Christian's vocabu-lary";
these being; consecration,
power, faith prayer and surrender.
Other speakers were Dr. Luther
Wesley Smith, who also led the
seminar and Joe Smith, a mission-ary
from the agricultural school in
Burma.
After driving down on Wednes-day
our boys stayed in hotels,
among them a place by a name
strangely similar to "Alcatraz" al-though
all agreed that the service
they received there in no way re-sembled
that institution! All dele-gates
have their leaders and our
group did not lack in this for Harry
Abrahamson informally assumed
this position and led the fellows in
some rollicking good "fellowship".
Following the close of the semi-nar
on Saturday our future pastors
were taken in by some fourteen
Swedish Baptist churches of the
Chicago area and on Sunday the
pulpits were opened to them, and
the students were allowed to
preach and hence to offer to the
audience a glimpse of what mater-ial
our conference has for the fu-ture.
A sincere word of gratitude
goes to these churches for their
kindness in this line.
Bethelites who attended the long
to be remembered conference
were: Glenn Anderson, Ray John-son,
Dallas West, Rodger Rendal,
Ray Applequist, Arden Finke, Wil-
(Continued on page 3)
Dr. Lagergren Honored
Memorial services for the late
Dr. Carl G. Lagergren, retired dean
of the Bethel Seminary, were held
by students, faculty, and friends of
Bethel on the tenth of December.
Presiding over the meeting was
Dr. G. Arvid Hagstrom. Dr. Karl-son,
dean of the Seminary, led
devotions. An address was given
by President Wingblade. Students
taking part were: Melvin and Syd-ney
Wyma, Dorothy Nelson, and
Nancy Zimmerman.
At Convocation, December 9,
Mrs. McCullah of Hamline Univer-sity
told of the development of
Madonna Paintings.
There are five main types of
paintings of the baby Jesus; the
enunciation, the nativity, those of
the carpenter shop in Nazareth,
the flight, and the Madonnas. In
religious art there is much sym-bolism.
Perhaps the two most
commonly used symbols are the
dawn representing the rise of a
new age in, world history and the po-megranate,
the symbol of fertility.
Raphael has perhaps painted
more Madonnas than any other
artist. In one year alone he
painted over one hundred. There
is an interesting story about his
"Madonna of the Chair".
Father Bernardo was in need of
a new place in which to live, so a
peasant girl named Mary helped
him build a but under a mighty
oak. Father Bernardo said when
he died that the oak and Mary
would never die because of their
kindness to him.
Years later the oak was cut
down and made into barrels, and
Mary was married and had several
children. One day Raphael visited
her home and was so impressed by
her appearance that he painted the
"Madonna of the Chair", as the
Jibe laSorn in 1941
It is thought that perhaps a
playground for children would be
much in order at Bethel. There
are five in our midst who will in
a few months, more or less, have
arrived at the mature age of a
year, and according to Dean Karl-son's
psychology lectures, will be
enabled to handle blocks and mar-bles
quite adeptly.
The discovery of these Bethel
infants was made last week when
Miss Larson, in checking the files
for draft eligibles, discovered five
who had made their debut in 1941.
Any student or faculty member
who espies any one of the infants
having trouble with his spinach, or
one who has taken a spill when the
distance between chairs has pro-ven
too great for the pattering,
unsteady "footsies," is asked to
give any aid possible.
Those to whom you are asked
to render aid are: Robert Hails,
Howard Jenson, Stanley King,
Lloyd Mattson, and Rodger Ren-dahl.
painting is now called, on the top
of a barrel made from the great
oak; and so in a sense it is said
that, Mary and the oak are still
living.
Initial Party of
Season Is Today In
College Auditorium
Song, Reading, Scripture
To Recall Nativity Story
At four-thirty this afternoon, Ray
Applequist will preside over the
traditional Bethel Christmas Party.
Dorothy Nelson will play the pre-lude
previous to the opening of the
program proper.
Music will take the form of
group singing by the German and
Swedish classes, and special selec-tions
by the Male Chorus, the
Arian Chorus, and the Chapel
choir.
The Christmas story will be
given with a musical background
by Elving Anderson, Bernard Tra-vaille
and Ethel Tederman.
Instrumental music will be pro-vided
by the Brass Quartette.
President Wingblade will give a
reading. (His reading on the
origin of the Christmas Tree will
be remembered by those who at-tended
the last College Club meet-ing.)
Miss Platts will also give a read-ing.
Gordon Johnson and Harold
Helsing will conduct the language
class choruses.
Supper fellowship will follow the
program. Those who desire to go
carolling in the evening should
sign up immediately.
If you have not as yet sent a
card to any of Bethel's field mis-sionaries,
select a name from the
bulletin board and do so today.
Do not forget to bring a ten cent
gift for the Christmas tree. Santa
Claus will give out gifts to those
children attending.
Canvass For Pledges
Sunday, December 7, a gospel
team representing the Boarding
Club held services morning, after-noon,
and evening at Fergus Falls.
Elving Anderson and Ethel Teder-man
were the speakers. Next Sun-day,
December 14, will be the first
week-end that the Boarding Club
has not held services in some part
of Minnesota or Wisconsin.
Every week, two or three meet-ings
are held by the gospel teams
of the school within the Twin
Cities. The Religious Council,
which sponsors their work, is now
making a person-to-person canvas
of students and friends of the
school for pledges and offerings to
further the work of spreading the
Gospel.
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE:
The Christ of Christmas
These days there comes to our minds and hearts once more a
sanctifying calm as we together think about that "Night of nights,
so pure, so holy, mother of a happy Christmas morn", when that
"sweet peace hung o'er a village lowly where our Savior, Jesus
Christ, was born". And then we are startled from our sweet re-verie
by the rude shock that the world is on fire, and burning near
our very shores.
Has the Christ child failed in His mission? No, He has not
failed. Has the power of the Gospel suffered loss? No, The
power of the Christian message and of the redemptive program is
still able to conquer all the gates of hell. What and where, then,
is the fault?
The failure lies in that the Gospel of the Christ of Christmas
has had no chance in th'e heart of teeming millions. They have
not heeded the call; they have not trusted in the message; they
have not followed the leading; they have not obeyed the command.
Christ will not fail. The battle is not done. He has His
faithful remnant; He will work out His purpose. There is a deep
stream flowing—irresistibly. His will be the victory. His glory
will yet flood the earth. Every knee shall bow and every tongue
shall confess. His "all power is given unto me in heaven and on
earth" has not been revoked. He is able.
What about us? Are we in the inner circle? Have we heard
. the MaSter's call? Are we a part of the victorious host? Have we
yielded all? If we put our faith in Him, and yield to His obedience
—our future will be sure—rooted in the faithfulness and in the
omnipotent power of an Eternal Christ.
"He cannot fail, for He is God;
He cannot fail; He has pledged His word;
He cannot fail, He'll see us through;
'Tis God with whom we have to do."
And so this Christmas we see not all things laid under His
feet, but we see Jesus. We have a captain who has never lost a
battle. He does not blunder. Let us lift up our heads for our
redemption draweth nigh.
A Merry Christmas to all the Bethel family.
Henry Wingblade, President
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Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
The first inspirational slogan of
the war has been flashed back by
our sea forces in the Pacific. The
cryptic, typically American mes-sage
was, "K. 0. Tokyo."
A week ago last Sunday, Japan
in launching an attack against pos-sessions
of a nation with whom she
was negotiating, broke all rules of
nobleness oblige, and with that
treacherous stroke forfeited all
rights of quarter and honorable
terms.
However, Japan never asked
them; nor has she ever fought
under terms we of the white race
They Do Their Part,
Do You?
by Roger Youngquist
Perhaps there have been more
outside attractions during this
school year than last, or perhaps
this year's students are more stu-dious
than last year's, but there is
a definite decline in the interest of
the student body in extra programs
and activities sponsored by var-ious
organizations of the school.
Some may raise the objection
that the programs are not as inter-esting
as they could be. This could
be affirmed or denied, without a
doubt, by various ones according
to their individual tastes, but the
same conclusion would be reached
in every argument, and that is that
with student support, much more
interesting programs and activities
would be possible.
Several programs have been pre-sented
in the school during this
semester, all of them worthwhile
entertainment, but at none of them
has a unanimous student response
been seen. This is true of class
activities as well as all-school
functions.
The most surprising develop-ment
of the year to the faculty, se-minary,
and sophomores is the
resurrection of the College Club,
which has already put on two fine
programs, will take charge of the
program for the Christmas party
today, and has laid plans for sev-eral
programs next semester.
In the seminary, the Alexis socie-ty
has been busy, and the Religious
Council as well, with several
splendid presentations designed to
be informative as well as enter-taining.
Leaders and committee men of
these organizations have been dis-satisfied
with the attendance and
response manifested by the stu
dents.
The term is half spent. The
time remaining after vacation can
be used better than the time that IS
past, and an active and varied pro-term
"honorable." It is altogether
possible that we shall have to
undergo and withstand atrocities
of behavior that we cannot con-scientiously
associate with "civili-zed
warfare."
Japan and her allies are fighting
with their backs to the wall...they
must win complete victory and de-liver
their own terms at the con-clusion
of hostilities or they are
doomed.
For them it must be, and is, a
fury of battle, an utter disregard
of self and means in the attaining
of an end.... victory.
"What though wars may come
With marching feet and beat of
a drum—
For I have Christ in my heart.
What though nations rage
As we approach the end of the
age
For I have Christ in my heart.
My God is still on the throne,
A mighty God is He,
And He cares for His own
Through all eternity, so . . .
What though wars may come
With marching feet and beat of
a drum
For I have Christ in my heart!"
DEAR PRIVATES,
To you Lloyd, Vic, Jerry, and
Bob, what can we say but "God
bless and keep you."
To us—war is as yet but your
absence, news reports, and darl:
war headlines.
But to you war has already be-come
a reality. You have been
trained to handle a gun, to march
in formation, obey orders, and take
strict discipline and entailed hard-ship
in stride.
And now you have a declared
enemy to fight. Fight you will, and
must, and soon. Perhaps you have
never read that volume, published
Sem Students
(Continued from page 1)
lard Anderson, Harry Abrahamson,
William Hagstrom, Gordon Larson,
Sidney Larson, Paul Lundgren,
Truman Halvorson, Francis Mc-
Olash, Warren Johnson, Dury Mil-ler,
Rawlin Johnson, Carl Lund-quist,
Bob Paulson, Walter Julien,
and Bob Perrin.
gram of extra events is certain to
come, if only those who plan the
activities can be sure of a one hun-dred
per cent support from the
student body.
After Christmas vacation and its
excitement is past you students
will return with a new apprecia-tion
of Bethel and her principles,
and this interest should furnish the
stimulus to patronize the activities
afforded them by their fellow-stu-dents.
Japan as a power, even today, is
being slighted. She is a smaller
nation than the United States, she
is poorer, she is weaker. But she
is desperate. It is a case of winner
take all. For Japan it is a case of
win or die fighting...and the Jap-anese
are not afraid to die.
Fibber McGee and Molly hit this
situation squarely, when on their
program recently they pulled this
gag: The town mayor was in a
department store to purchase a
globe. The clerk asked, "Do you
want a globe that has Japan on it?
If you do you'd better buy now!"
in a white binding, and entitled
"The Comrade in White." It is
the story of a private clad in a
white uniform who appeared to
soldiers in the European trenches
in 1918. The figure was without
doubt the result of a fevered brain,
and yet, I fully believe that Christ
ministered to those who called up-on
Him in the trenches.
But, "My God is still on the
throne,"—now as He was in 1918.
Call on the Comrade in White
when you need Him, as you often
will in the fury of hate that is al-ready
coming. Keep your Chris-tian
perspective, and fight because
you must, and not because you
find a gun in your hand and your
mind red with hate.
We at home are not impressed
by the war as yet, except sentimen-tally
... but daily we feel the bur-den
grow.
It's "our country",—yours, Pri-vate,
and ours. You in uniform
are united on the war front, we at
home shall organize the civilian
front.
And it's "our country, right or
wrong!"
Yours sincerely,
"cfkrtki it num to pass"
7Euht
1. And it came to pass in those
days, that there went out a decree
from Caesar Augustus, that all the
world should be taxed.
4. And Joseph also went up from
Galilee, out of the ctiy of Naza-reth,
into Judea, unto the city of
David, which is called Bethlehem;
5. To be taxed with Mary, his
espoused wife, being great with
child.
6. And so it was, that, while
they were there, the days were
accomplished that she should be
delivered.
7. And she brought forth her
first-born son and wrapped him in
swaddling clothes, and laid him in
a manager; because there was no
room for them in the inn.
8. And there were in the same
country shepherds abiding in the
field, keeping watch over their
flock by night.
9. And, lo, the angel of the Lord
came upon them, and the glory of
the Lord shone round about them:
and they were sore afraid.
10. And the angel said unto
them, fear not: for behold, I bring
you good tidings of great joy
which shall be to all people.
11. For unto you is born thl day
in the ctiy of David a Savior,
which is Christ the Lord.
12. And this shall be a sign unto
you; Ye shall find the babe wrap-ped
in swaddling clothes, lying in
a manger.
13. And suddenly there was with
the angel a multitude of the hea-venly
host praising God, and say-ing,
14. Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, good will to-ward
men.
15. And it came to pass, as the
angels were gone away from them
into heaven, the shepherds said
one to another, Let us now go even
unto Bethlehem, and see this thing
which is come to pass, which the
Lord hath made known unto us.
16. And they came with haste,
and found Mary, and Joseph, and
the babe lying in a manger.
ecidoitial ea.d:
Fighting Marines Flaunt Morale; "K. 0. Tokyo"
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THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Original by Charles Dickens
A Modern Version of "A Christmas Carol"
Revised by Gordon Johnson
As the people hurried along the
snow-covered streets, many could
be seen stepping aside to permit
Squires to continue his determined
course toward his banking office.
He tightly gripped a large ledger-book
in his hand and had a pierc-ing
look in his eye that caused
people to shudder as he ap-proached.
On entering his bank-ing
house, he said in harsh tones
to his bookkeeper, "There is no
need for all of these lights burn-ing."
Somewhat satisfied with this
cutting remark, Squires went to
the inner office, soon to be fol-lowed
by his nephew.
"Merry Christmas, Uncle!" cried
a cheerful voice. "Bah," said
Squires. "Humbug!"
"Christmas a humbug, Uncle!
You don't mean that, I am sure."
"I do." said Squires. "Merry
Christmas! What right have you
to be merry? You're poor enough."
"Come then." returned the nep-hew,
gayly. "What right have you
to be dismal. You're rich enough."
With no better answer, Squires
repeated the characteristic, "Bah,
Humbug!"
"Don't be cross, Uncle, we want
you to dine with us tomorrow."
"We'll see," said Squires. "Good
afternoon."
"A Merry Christmas to you,
-Uncle!"
"Good afternoon!"
"And a Happy New Year!" said
the nephew.
"Good • afternoon." repeated
Squires.
It wasn't many minutes before
two neat and kindly looking gentle-men
entered the banking house.
"Mr. Squires I believe," said the
one gentleman.
"That's right," was the terse
reply.
"Because of your generosity, we
approach you for your contribution
for the poor at this holiday sea-son."
"Are the prisons, poor houses, or-phanages,
and work houses still
open?" inquired Squires.
"Yes, but we would like to be of
some help to those who are not in
these places." answered one of the
gentlemen.
"I am compelled to help sup-port
these other institutions; that
is enough. Good day, gentlemen."
After the two had gone out of
the door, Squires turned to Bob,
his bookkeeper, and said, "You
want the day off tomorrow, I ex-pect."
"Well,—it only comes once a
year."
"You expect me to pay you for
one holiday every year, It is not
going to happen this year; you be
here early tomorrow morning."
"Yes, sir," said Bob feebly.
Evening came. Squires turned
out the one dim light over the
bookkeeper's dingy desk, locked
the safe, and securely latched the
front door. In his room he sat and
pondered the business of the day
and past year as he intently looked
over the ledger book. War had
increased business and profit with-out
much increase in overhead. It
had not been necessary to raise
the salary of his bookkeeper, for
he was getting eighteen dollars a
week which was enough for him
and his family to get along on.
Just then the form of an old
business associate who had been
dead for seven years appeared in
the room. He beckoned Squires to
follow him. In a few moments
they were in that neighborhood in
which Squires had gotten his start
in life. There before them was the
old mill where he had had his first
job. He recalled the first Christ-mas
that he had worked for kindly
old Mr. Jones and how he had given
each employee a five dollar bill
and had told 'him to have a happy
holiday. The Ghost then took him
to a small home where his nephew
was on the floor playing with the
children. His wife was setting the
table with a lot of good things
for the Christmas feast. Then the
door opened and in came one after
another of the neighbors and even
two of the children from the orph-anage.
All began having a merry
time singing and playing games.
"One more place." were the first
words that the Ghost had spoken.
In Bob's home little Tim seemed
to be the center of all the gayety
of the season, though it was a
rather poor dwelling place. All
were very happy as they began
sitting around the table that was
laden with a well cooked goose.
In. a moment Squires was back
in his room, and all the Ghost said
was, "This has been only for your
good."
Squires pleaded for his old busi-ness
associate to remain a bit lon-ger.
"That is impossible," was the
brief reply as he vanished out of
the door.
The old clock above the Church
began to toll its usual seven
o'clock vigil. Squires jumped up
with a start and ran to the window.
It was a bright morning. He
shouted a Merry Christmas to the
small boy that was running by and
asked him to go down to the
butcher shop and have them send
their largest turkey to Bob's home.
He then hurriedly got dressed and
went down to his office walking
with a light spirit and cheerily
greeting everyone that he passed.
Just ahead of him was the man
that had approached him in his
office yesterday.
Slipping up besides him, he said,
"Without a doubt you remember
me from yesterday. A yesterday
which wasn't too pleasant. But
take this."
"Mr. Squires, is this right—why,
it is too much." said the gentleman.
"No, not at all. And A Merry
Christmas," replied Mr. Squires as
he hurried off.
At the office as Bob entered, he
said in his usual tone, "You are
eighteen minutes late."
"Yes, —but it's--just once a year,
—and last night—" Bob stammered
until interrupted.
"Come back here, Bob," said
Squires. "I am going to raise your
salary. You may go now, Bob, and
a Merry Christmas to you."
In a short while Squires was
knocking at his nephew's door.
"May I come in to dinner, Fred?"
"Certainly," said his nephew in a
jubilant tone.
After all the merriment of the
day, Squires cried, "I don't know
what to do!" He was laughing
and crying in the same breath.
"I am as light as a feather, I am as
happy as an angel, I am as merry
as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as
a drunken man. A Merry Christ-mas
to everyone! A Happy New
Year year to all the world. Hello
Here! Whoop! Hello!"
War on America by Disease
Treacherous as Axis Warfare
Is Health Association Warning
That youth will be hard hit in
the trying days ahead, not only on
the firing line, but as war increa-singly
unleashes the disease men-ace
of influenza and tuberculosis,
is the warning of the Ramsey
County Public Health association.
Prediction of a severe influenza
epidemic this winter had been
made by leading
physicians before
involvement of CHRISTMAS
this country in SEALS
the war had
come. Now with
the war putting
strains and bur-dens
on everyone
to an extent be-yond
present
conception, the
Christmas Seal
organizations
point out that
the age-group hardest hit in the
national defense program is also
the age-group in which tuberculo-sis
is the chief killer. It is the
group the country needs most for
its security and survival. Public
health association draws attention
to the increasing tempo of indus-try,
as cited by the President of the
United 'States as a necessity.
"That means it will be as impor-tant
to curb tuberculosis among
the workers in industry, during
this war, as is will be to keep tu-berculosis
out of our armed forces,
during this world crisis." Ira C.
Oehler, chairman of the local
Christmas Seal committee said, fol-lowing
the Dec. 9, radio broadcast
of the President.
Appealing to patriotic impulses,
Mr. Oehler urges, "Buy Christmas
Seals, this year!"
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Play-off Game
Nets Victory
Swanson Hi-points;
"B" Features Fast Game
Northwestern was beaten by
Bethel last week in the play-off
game of the season, the score be-ing
55-31. The game was played
on Bethel's court. Frank Noyes
officiated.
The game was a wide open, fast
breaking affair with frequent sub-stitutions
being made. Nyman,
Halvorson, Swanson, Lawrence
and Gene Johnson led off for the
Indians. Twelve players were
used during the four quarters.
Bethel came in fast and scored
four field goals during the first
few minutes of play. The pace
slowed somewhat thereafter and
both teams played good offensive
and defensive games until the half
when the score was 25-13.
After the half Bethel again took
the floor in some fast plays and
gained such .a decisive lead that
it was maintained during the en-tire
moment of play. Halvorson
went out on fouls early in the
second half and Anderson, sent in
in his stead, revealed some skillful
passing.
High score honors were taken by
Shine Swanson; Gene Johnson fol
lowed, a close second, with 14
points to Swanson's 16. Cravens
led Northwestern scoring with a
total of seven points.
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on wheels. The sophomores won
the game by the comfortable score
of 45-36.
Those playing for the victors
were: Willis Wessman, Dick
Braun, Herb Johnson, Bob Nor-strom,
and Elwood Anderson. Dick
Braun worked up an enthusiastic
gallery when he scored five out of
five free-throws while kneeling.
Something psychic about his posi-tion
was attributed to his success.
Dick also led the high score men
with a total of twenty-one points.
Bob Hails of the freshman team
held second with a score of eigh-teen
points.
Those playing on the freshman
team were: Ingmar Larson, Bob
Hails, Melvin Wyma, Paul Larson,
Dave Carlson, Earl Johnson, Lloyd
Sprecher, and Dale Lindberg.
"I thing the game went over
quite well," Coach Adam, advisor
of the Freshman class, was heard
to comment to one of the specta-tors.
Students displayed much en-thusiasm
and girls were heard to
murmur something about a game
on skates with women players.
Will this form of competition be-come
a tradition at Bethel?
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Indians Lead
Aggies 38-15
Playing a winning game at Farm
School last Saturday the Bethel
Indians piled up a total score of
38-15. Glen Swanson again proved
high-point man with a count of
twenty two points.
The team's backboard play wasn't
especially commendable, and in
fact the whole game was played
rather erratically. Gene Johnson
went out on personals early in the
second half.
However the team showed up
rather well against the greater
height of the opposition, and in
contrast to the clumsy ball-hand-ling
of the "Aggies". appeared to
give a rather smooth and polished
exhibition. Nor did the home team
tire as easily as expected on the
larger University court.
The reserve team playing earlier
in the evening won their game by
a score of 38-17. Bob Bergerud
was high score man with a total of
fourteen points. Both varsity and
reserve squad showed a faculty for
fast breaks down the floor.
Sem Organizes
B. B. Competition
At the present time the sport of
major interest to the nation is bas-ketball.
This interest holds true
at Bethel. The varsity, the wo-men's
team, the reserve team, and
the intra-mural gym squads are all
busily playing out their respective
schedules.
Ambitious and frisky seminary
students have started a class on
the fifth period Monday. These
lads have come out for basketball
for the pure joy of playing and are
enjoying themselves very much,
according to reports.
Two teams have been organized.
The "Greeks" are captained by
Francis Otto, and the "Hebrews"
are captained by Ray Applequist.
Seminary boys are welcome to en-roll
in this class if they so desire.
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THE BETHEL CLARION
Vol. XXI No. 7
BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.)
Dec. 18, 1941
Sem Students
Go to Chicago
by Ray Applequist
Twenty one seminary students
returned Monday from a four day
seminar held at the Northern
Theological Seminary in Chicago.
Ministerial students from several
schools met for this interesting
session held every other year for
the purpose of acquainting our fu-ture
pastors and missionaries with
the work and organization of the
Northern Baptist Convention.
The whole four days proved
themselves profitable. Even our
critically minded Bethelites agreed
to this as they have repeatedly
commented on the helpful talks
and messages given by the out-standing
speakers.
Foremost among these messages
was a series of five messages given
by Dr. Dana of Kansas City who
offered "The five most important
words in the Christian's vocabu-lary";
these being; consecration,
power, faith prayer and surrender.
Other speakers were Dr. Luther
Wesley Smith, who also led the
seminar and Joe Smith, a mission-ary
from the agricultural school in
Burma.
After driving down on Wednes-day
our boys stayed in hotels,
among them a place by a name
strangely similar to "Alcatraz" al-though
all agreed that the service
they received there in no way re-sembled
that institution! All dele-gates
have their leaders and our
group did not lack in this for Harry
Abrahamson informally assumed
this position and led the fellows in
some rollicking good "fellowship".
Following the close of the semi-nar
on Saturday our future pastors
were taken in by some fourteen
Swedish Baptist churches of the
Chicago area and on Sunday the
pulpits were opened to them, and
the students were allowed to
preach and hence to offer to the
audience a glimpse of what mater-ial
our conference has for the fu-ture.
A sincere word of gratitude
goes to these churches for their
kindness in this line.
Bethelites who attended the long
to be remembered conference
were: Glenn Anderson, Ray John-son,
Dallas West, Rodger Rendal,
Ray Applequist, Arden Finke, Wil-
(Continued on page 3)
Dr. Lagergren Honored
Memorial services for the late
Dr. Carl G. Lagergren, retired dean
of the Bethel Seminary, were held
by students, faculty, and friends of
Bethel on the tenth of December.
Presiding over the meeting was
Dr. G. Arvid Hagstrom. Dr. Karl-son,
dean of the Seminary, led
devotions. An address was given
by President Wingblade. Students
taking part were: Melvin and Syd-ney
Wyma, Dorothy Nelson, and
Nancy Zimmerman.
At Convocation, December 9,
Mrs. McCullah of Hamline Univer-sity
told of the development of
Madonna Paintings.
There are five main types of
paintings of the baby Jesus; the
enunciation, the nativity, those of
the carpenter shop in Nazareth,
the flight, and the Madonnas. In
religious art there is much sym-bolism.
Perhaps the two most
commonly used symbols are the
dawn representing the rise of a
new age in, world history and the po-megranate,
the symbol of fertility.
Raphael has perhaps painted
more Madonnas than any other
artist. In one year alone he
painted over one hundred. There
is an interesting story about his
"Madonna of the Chair".
Father Bernardo was in need of
a new place in which to live, so a
peasant girl named Mary helped
him build a but under a mighty
oak. Father Bernardo said when
he died that the oak and Mary
would never die because of their
kindness to him.
Years later the oak was cut
down and made into barrels, and
Mary was married and had several
children. One day Raphael visited
her home and was so impressed by
her appearance that he painted the
"Madonna of the Chair", as the
Jibe laSorn in 1941
It is thought that perhaps a
playground for children would be
much in order at Bethel. There
are five in our midst who will in
a few months, more or less, have
arrived at the mature age of a
year, and according to Dean Karl-son's
psychology lectures, will be
enabled to handle blocks and mar-bles
quite adeptly.
The discovery of these Bethel
infants was made last week when
Miss Larson, in checking the files
for draft eligibles, discovered five
who had made their debut in 1941.
Any student or faculty member
who espies any one of the infants
having trouble with his spinach, or
one who has taken a spill when the
distance between chairs has pro-ven
too great for the pattering,
unsteady "footsies," is asked to
give any aid possible.
Those to whom you are asked
to render aid are: Robert Hails,
Howard Jenson, Stanley King,
Lloyd Mattson, and Rodger Ren-dahl.
painting is now called, on the top
of a barrel made from the great
oak; and so in a sense it is said
that, Mary and the oak are still
living.
Initial Party of
Season Is Today In
College Auditorium
Song, Reading, Scripture
To Recall Nativity Story
At four-thirty this afternoon, Ray
Applequist will preside over the
traditional Bethel Christmas Party.
Dorothy Nelson will play the pre-lude
previous to the opening of the
program proper.
Music will take the form of
group singing by the German and
Swedish classes, and special selec-tions
by the Male Chorus, the
Arian Chorus, and the Chapel
choir.
The Christmas story will be
given with a musical background
by Elving Anderson, Bernard Tra-vaille
and Ethel Tederman.
Instrumental music will be pro-vided
by the Brass Quartette.
President Wingblade will give a
reading. (His reading on the
origin of the Christmas Tree will
be remembered by those who at-tended
the last College Club meet-ing.)
Miss Platts will also give a read-ing.
Gordon Johnson and Harold
Helsing will conduct the language
class choruses.
Supper fellowship will follow the
program. Those who desire to go
carolling in the evening should
sign up immediately.
If you have not as yet sent a
card to any of Bethel's field mis-sionaries,
select a name from the
bulletin board and do so today.
Do not forget to bring a ten cent
gift for the Christmas tree. Santa
Claus will give out gifts to those
children attending.
Canvass For Pledges
Sunday, December 7, a gospel
team representing the Boarding
Club held services morning, after-noon,
and evening at Fergus Falls.
Elving Anderson and Ethel Teder-man
were the speakers. Next Sun-day,
December 14, will be the first
week-end that the Boarding Club
has not held services in some part
of Minnesota or Wisconsin.
Every week, two or three meet-ings
are held by the gospel teams
of the school within the Twin
Cities. The Religious Council,
which sponsors their work, is now
making a person-to-person canvas
of students and friends of the
school for pledges and offerings to
further the work of spreading the
Gospel.
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE:
The Christ of Christmas
These days there comes to our minds and hearts once more a
sanctifying calm as we together think about that "Night of nights,
so pure, so holy, mother of a happy Christmas morn", when that
"sweet peace hung o'er a village lowly where our Savior, Jesus
Christ, was born". And then we are startled from our sweet re-verie
by the rude shock that the world is on fire, and burning near
our very shores.
Has the Christ child failed in His mission? No, He has not
failed. Has the power of the Gospel suffered loss? No, The
power of the Christian message and of the redemptive program is
still able to conquer all the gates of hell. What and where, then,
is the fault?
The failure lies in that the Gospel of the Christ of Christmas
has had no chance in th'e heart of teeming millions. They have
not heeded the call; they have not trusted in the message; they
have not followed the leading; they have not obeyed the command.
Christ will not fail. The battle is not done. He has His
faithful remnant; He will work out His purpose. There is a deep
stream flowing—irresistibly. His will be the victory. His glory
will yet flood the earth. Every knee shall bow and every tongue
shall confess. His "all power is given unto me in heaven and on
earth" has not been revoked. He is able.
What about us? Are we in the inner circle? Have we heard
. the MaSter's call? Are we a part of the victorious host? Have we
yielded all? If we put our faith in Him, and yield to His obedience
—our future will be sure—rooted in the faithfulness and in the
omnipotent power of an Eternal Christ.
"He cannot fail, for He is God;
He cannot fail; He has pledged His word;
He cannot fail, He'll see us through;
'Tis God with whom we have to do."
And so this Christmas we see not all things laid under His
feet, but we see Jesus. We have a captain who has never lost a
battle. He does not blunder. Let us lift up our heads for our
redemption draweth nigh.
A Merry Christmas to all the Bethel family.
Henry Wingblade, President
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Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
The first inspirational slogan of
the war has been flashed back by
our sea forces in the Pacific. The
cryptic, typically American mes-sage
was, "K. 0. Tokyo."
A week ago last Sunday, Japan
in launching an attack against pos-sessions
of a nation with whom she
was negotiating, broke all rules of
nobleness oblige, and with that
treacherous stroke forfeited all
rights of quarter and honorable
terms.
However, Japan never asked
them; nor has she ever fought
under terms we of the white race
They Do Their Part,
Do You?
by Roger Youngquist
Perhaps there have been more
outside attractions during this
school year than last, or perhaps
this year's students are more stu-dious
than last year's, but there is
a definite decline in the interest of
the student body in extra programs
and activities sponsored by var-ious
organizations of the school.
Some may raise the objection
that the programs are not as inter-esting
as they could be. This could
be affirmed or denied, without a
doubt, by various ones according
to their individual tastes, but the
same conclusion would be reached
in every argument, and that is that
with student support, much more
interesting programs and activities
would be possible.
Several programs have been pre-sented
in the school during this
semester, all of them worthwhile
entertainment, but at none of them
has a unanimous student response
been seen. This is true of class
activities as well as all-school
functions.
The most surprising develop-ment
of the year to the faculty, se-minary,
and sophomores is the
resurrection of the College Club,
which has already put on two fine
programs, will take charge of the
program for the Christmas party
today, and has laid plans for sev-eral
programs next semester.
In the seminary, the Alexis socie-ty
has been busy, and the Religious
Council as well, with several
splendid presentations designed to
be informative as well as enter-taining.
Leaders and committee men of
these organizations have been dis-satisfied
with the attendance and
response manifested by the stu
dents.
The term is half spent. The
time remaining after vacation can
be used better than the time that IS
past, and an active and varied pro-term
"honorable." It is altogether
possible that we shall have to
undergo and withstand atrocities
of behavior that we cannot con-scientiously
associate with "civili-zed
warfare."
Japan and her allies are fighting
with their backs to the wall...they
must win complete victory and de-liver
their own terms at the con-clusion
of hostilities or they are
doomed.
For them it must be, and is, a
fury of battle, an utter disregard
of self and means in the attaining
of an end.... victory.
"What though wars may come
With marching feet and beat of
a drum—
For I have Christ in my heart.
What though nations rage
As we approach the end of the
age
For I have Christ in my heart.
My God is still on the throne,
A mighty God is He,
And He cares for His own
Through all eternity, so . . .
What though wars may come
With marching feet and beat of
a drum
For I have Christ in my heart!"
DEAR PRIVATES,
To you Lloyd, Vic, Jerry, and
Bob, what can we say but "God
bless and keep you."
To us—war is as yet but your
absence, news reports, and darl:
war headlines.
But to you war has already be-come
a reality. You have been
trained to handle a gun, to march
in formation, obey orders, and take
strict discipline and entailed hard-ship
in stride.
And now you have a declared
enemy to fight. Fight you will, and
must, and soon. Perhaps you have
never read that volume, published
Sem Students
(Continued from page 1)
lard Anderson, Harry Abrahamson,
William Hagstrom, Gordon Larson,
Sidney Larson, Paul Lundgren,
Truman Halvorson, Francis Mc-
Olash, Warren Johnson, Dury Mil-ler,
Rawlin Johnson, Carl Lund-quist,
Bob Paulson, Walter Julien,
and Bob Perrin.
gram of extra events is certain to
come, if only those who plan the
activities can be sure of a one hun-dred
per cent support from the
student body.
After Christmas vacation and its
excitement is past you students
will return with a new apprecia-tion
of Bethel and her principles,
and this interest should furnish the
stimulus to patronize the activities
afforded them by their fellow-stu-dents.
Japan as a power, even today, is
being slighted. She is a smaller
nation than the United States, she
is poorer, she is weaker. But she
is desperate. It is a case of winner
take all. For Japan it is a case of
win or die fighting...and the Jap-anese
are not afraid to die.
Fibber McGee and Molly hit this
situation squarely, when on their
program recently they pulled this
gag: The town mayor was in a
department store to purchase a
globe. The clerk asked, "Do you
want a globe that has Japan on it?
If you do you'd better buy now!"
in a white binding, and entitled
"The Comrade in White." It is
the story of a private clad in a
white uniform who appeared to
soldiers in the European trenches
in 1918. The figure was without
doubt the result of a fevered brain,
and yet, I fully believe that Christ
ministered to those who called up-on
Him in the trenches.
But, "My God is still on the
throne,"—now as He was in 1918.
Call on the Comrade in White
when you need Him, as you often
will in the fury of hate that is al-ready
coming. Keep your Chris-tian
perspective, and fight because
you must, and not because you
find a gun in your hand and your
mind red with hate.
We at home are not impressed
by the war as yet, except sentimen-tally
... but daily we feel the bur-den
grow.
It's "our country",—yours, Pri-vate,
and ours. You in uniform
are united on the war front, we at
home shall organize the civilian
front.
And it's "our country, right or
wrong!"
Yours sincerely,
"cfkrtki it num to pass"
7Euht
1. And it came to pass in those
days, that there went out a decree
from Caesar Augustus, that all the
world should be taxed.
4. And Joseph also went up from
Galilee, out of the ctiy of Naza-reth,
into Judea, unto the city of
David, which is called Bethlehem;
5. To be taxed with Mary, his
espoused wife, being great with
child.
6. And so it was, that, while
they were there, the days were
accomplished that she should be
delivered.
7. And she brought forth her
first-born son and wrapped him in
swaddling clothes, and laid him in
a manager; because there was no
room for them in the inn.
8. And there were in the same
country shepherds abiding in the
field, keeping watch over their
flock by night.
9. And, lo, the angel of the Lord
came upon them, and the glory of
the Lord shone round about them:
and they were sore afraid.
10. And the angel said unto
them, fear not: for behold, I bring
you good tidings of great joy
which shall be to all people.
11. For unto you is born thl day
in the ctiy of David a Savior,
which is Christ the Lord.
12. And this shall be a sign unto
you; Ye shall find the babe wrap-ped
in swaddling clothes, lying in
a manger.
13. And suddenly there was with
the angel a multitude of the hea-venly
host praising God, and say-ing,
14. Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, good will to-ward
men.
15. And it came to pass, as the
angels were gone away from them
into heaven, the shepherds said
one to another, Let us now go even
unto Bethlehem, and see this thing
which is come to pass, which the
Lord hath made known unto us.
16. And they came with haste,
and found Mary, and Joseph, and
the babe lying in a manger.
ecidoitial ea.d:
Fighting Marines Flaunt Morale; "K. 0. Tokyo"
THE BETHEL CLARION
A bl-weekly campus newspaper.
BETHEL INSTITUTE
1480 North Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Published by students every other Tuesday
except In July and August.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
Editor-in-Chief Alice Schouweller
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Sports Editor Glen Swanson
Clubs Mary Jenkins
Reporters — Dave Moberg, Mary E. Hamline, Robert Christianson, Marilyn
Peterson, Elbert Walker, Charlotte Sandin, June Hedman, Betty
White, Roland Gustafson, Ruth Nelson. Gene Johnson, Art.
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Typists Alice Wingblade, Lola Anderson, Elwood Anderson
Business Manager Gunnar Hoglund
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THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Original by Charles Dickens
A Modern Version of "A Christmas Carol"
Revised by Gordon Johnson
As the people hurried along the
snow-covered streets, many could
be seen stepping aside to permit
Squires to continue his determined
course toward his banking office.
He tightly gripped a large ledger-book
in his hand and had a pierc-ing
look in his eye that caused
people to shudder as he ap-proached.
On entering his bank-ing
house, he said in harsh tones
to his bookkeeper, "There is no
need for all of these lights burn-ing."
Somewhat satisfied with this
cutting remark, Squires went to
the inner office, soon to be fol-lowed
by his nephew.
"Merry Christmas, Uncle!" cried
a cheerful voice. "Bah," said
Squires. "Humbug!"
"Christmas a humbug, Uncle!
You don't mean that, I am sure."
"I do." said Squires. "Merry
Christmas! What right have you
to be merry? You're poor enough."
"Come then." returned the nep-hew,
gayly. "What right have you
to be dismal. You're rich enough."
With no better answer, Squires
repeated the characteristic, "Bah,
Humbug!"
"Don't be cross, Uncle, we want
you to dine with us tomorrow."
"We'll see," said Squires. "Good
afternoon."
"A Merry Christmas to you,
-Uncle!"
"Good afternoon!"
"And a Happy New Year!" said
the nephew.
"Good • afternoon." repeated
Squires.
It wasn't many minutes before
two neat and kindly looking gentle-men
entered the banking house.
"Mr. Squires I believe," said the
one gentleman.
"That's right," was the terse
reply.
"Because of your generosity, we
approach you for your contribution
for the poor at this holiday sea-son."
"Are the prisons, poor houses, or-phanages,
and work houses still
open?" inquired Squires.
"Yes, but we would like to be of
some help to those who are not in
these places." answered one of the
gentlemen.
"I am compelled to help sup-port
these other institutions; that
is enough. Good day, gentlemen."
After the two had gone out of
the door, Squires turned to Bob,
his bookkeeper, and said, "You
want the day off tomorrow, I ex-pect."
"Well,—it only comes once a
year."
"You expect me to pay you for
one holiday every year, It is not
going to happen this year; you be
here early tomorrow morning."
"Yes, sir," said Bob feebly.
Evening came. Squires turned
out the one dim light over the
bookkeeper's dingy desk, locked
the safe, and securely latched the
front door. In his room he sat and
pondered the business of the day
and past year as he intently looked
over the ledger book. War had
increased business and profit with-out
much increase in overhead. It
had not been necessary to raise
the salary of his bookkeeper, for
he was getting eighteen dollars a
week which was enough for him
and his family to get along on.
Just then the form of an old
business associate who had been
dead for seven years appeared in
the room. He beckoned Squires to
follow him. In a few moments
they were in that neighborhood in
which Squires had gotten his start
in life. There before them was the
old mill where he had had his first
job. He recalled the first Christ-mas
that he had worked for kindly
old Mr. Jones and how he had given
each employee a five dollar bill
and had told 'him to have a happy
holiday. The Ghost then took him
to a small home where his nephew
was on the floor playing with the
children. His wife was setting the
table with a lot of good things
for the Christmas feast. Then the
door opened and in came one after
another of the neighbors and even
two of the children from the orph-anage.
All began having a merry
time singing and playing games.
"One more place." were the first
words that the Ghost had spoken.
In Bob's home little Tim seemed
to be the center of all the gayety
of the season, though it was a
rather poor dwelling place. All
were very happy as they began
sitting around the table that was
laden with a well cooked goose.
In. a moment Squires was back
in his room, and all the Ghost said
was, "This has been only for your
good."
Squires pleaded for his old busi-ness
associate to remain a bit lon-ger.
"That is impossible," was the
brief reply as he vanished out of
the door.
The old clock above the Church
began to toll its usual seven
o'clock vigil. Squires jumped up
with a start and ran to the window.
It was a bright morning. He
shouted a Merry Christmas to the
small boy that was running by and
asked him to go down to the
butcher shop and have them send
their largest turkey to Bob's home.
He then hurriedly got dressed and
went down to his office walking
with a light spirit and cheerily
greeting everyone that he passed.
Just ahead of him was the man
that had approached him in his
office yesterday.
Slipping up besides him, he said,
"Without a doubt you remember
me from yesterday. A yesterday
which wasn't too pleasant. But
take this."
"Mr. Squires, is this right—why,
it is too much." said the gentleman.
"No, not at all. And A Merry
Christmas," replied Mr. Squires as
he hurried off.
At the office as Bob entered, he
said in his usual tone, "You are
eighteen minutes late."
"Yes, —but it's--just once a year,
—and last night—" Bob stammered
until interrupted.
"Come back here, Bob," said
Squires. "I am going to raise your
salary. You may go now, Bob, and
a Merry Christmas to you."
In a short while Squires was
knocking at his nephew's door.
"May I come in to dinner, Fred?"
"Certainly," said his nephew in a
jubilant tone.
After all the merriment of the
day, Squires cried, "I don't know
what to do!" He was laughing
and crying in the same breath.
"I am as light as a feather, I am as
happy as an angel, I am as merry
as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as
a drunken man. A Merry Christ-mas
to everyone! A Happy New
Year year to all the world. Hello
Here! Whoop! Hello!"
War on America by Disease
Treacherous as Axis Warfare
Is Health Association Warning
That youth will be hard hit in
the trying days ahead, not only on
the firing line, but as war increa-singly
unleashes the disease men-ace
of influenza and tuberculosis,
is the warning of the Ramsey
County Public Health association.
Prediction of a severe influenza
epidemic this winter had been
made by leading
physicians before
involvement of CHRISTMAS
this country in SEALS
the war had
come. Now with
the war putting
strains and bur-dens
on everyone
to an extent be-yond
present
conception, the
Christmas Seal
organizations
point out that
the age-group hardest hit in the
national defense program is also
the age-group in which tuberculo-sis
is the chief killer. It is the
group the country needs most for
its security and survival. Public
health association draws attention
to the increasing tempo of indus-try,
as cited by the President of the
United 'States as a necessity.
"That means it will be as impor-tant
to curb tuberculosis among
the workers in industry, during
this war, as is will be to keep tu-berculosis
out of our armed forces,
during this world crisis." Ira C.
Oehler, chairman of the local
Christmas Seal committee said, fol-lowing
the Dec. 9, radio broadcast
of the President.
Appealing to patriotic impulses,
Mr. Oehler urges, "Buy Christmas
Seals, this year!"
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Play-off Game
Nets Victory
Swanson Hi-points;
"B" Features Fast Game
Northwestern was beaten by
Bethel last week in the play-off
game of the season, the score be-ing
55-31. The game was played
on Bethel's court. Frank Noyes
officiated.
The game was a wide open, fast
breaking affair with frequent sub-stitutions
being made. Nyman,
Halvorson, Swanson, Lawrence
and Gene Johnson led off for the
Indians. Twelve players were
used during the four quarters.
Bethel came in fast and scored
four field goals during the first
few minutes of play. The pace
slowed somewhat thereafter and
both teams played good offensive
and defensive games until the half
when the score was 25-13.
After the half Bethel again took
the floor in some fast plays and
gained such .a decisive lead that
it was maintained during the en-tire
moment of play. Halvorson
went out on fouls early in the
second half and Anderson, sent in
in his stead, revealed some skillful
passing.
High score honors were taken by
Shine Swanson; Gene Johnson fol
lowed, a close second, with 14
points to Swanson's 16. Cravens
led Northwestern scoring with a
total of seven points.
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Humming wheels provided much
suspense, thrills, and fear last Fri-day
when the Freshman-Sopho-more
teams waged a basketball war
on wheels. The sophomores won
the game by the comfortable score
of 45-36.
Those playing for the victors
were: Willis Wessman, Dick
Braun, Herb Johnson, Bob Nor-strom,
and Elwood Anderson. Dick
Braun worked up an enthusiastic
gallery when he scored five out of
five free-throws while kneeling.
Something psychic about his posi-tion
was attributed to his success.
Dick also led the high score men
with a total of twenty-one points.
Bob Hails of the freshman team
held second with a score of eigh-teen
points.
Those playing on the freshman
team were: Ingmar Larson, Bob
Hails, Melvin Wyma, Paul Larson,
Dave Carlson, Earl Johnson, Lloyd
Sprecher, and Dale Lindberg.
"I thing the game went over
quite well," Coach Adam, advisor
of the Freshman class, was heard
to comment to one of the specta-tors.
Students displayed much en-thusiasm
and girls were heard to
murmur something about a game
on skates with women players.
Will this form of competition be-come
a tradition at Bethel?
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Indians Lead
Aggies 38-15
Playing a winning game at Farm
School last Saturday the Bethel
Indians piled up a total score of
38-15. Glen Swanson again proved
high-point man with a count of
twenty two points.
The team's backboard play wasn't
especially commendable, and in
fact the whole game was played
rather erratically. Gene Johnson
went out on personals early in the
second half.
However the team showed up
rather well against the greater
height of the opposition, and in
contrast to the clumsy ball-hand-ling
of the "Aggies". appeared to
give a rather smooth and polished
exhibition. Nor did the home team
tire as easily as expected on the
larger University court.
The reserve team playing earlier
in the evening won their game by
a score of 38-17. Bob Bergerud
was high score man with a total of
fourteen points. Both varsity and
reserve squad showed a faculty for
fast breaks down the floor.
Sem Organizes
B. B. Competition
At the present time the sport of
major interest to the nation is bas-ketball.
This interest holds true
at Bethel. The varsity, the wo-men's
team, the reserve team, and
the intra-mural gym squads are all
busily playing out their respective
schedules.
Ambitious and frisky seminary
students have started a class on
the fifth period Monday. These
lads have come out for basketball
for the pure joy of playing and are
enjoying themselves very much,
according to reports.
Two teams have been organized.
The "Greeks" are captained by
Francis Otto, and the "Hebrews"
are captained by Ray Applequist.
Seminary boys are welcome to en-roll
in this class if they so desire.
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